Job summary
- Main area
- Otolaryngology
- Grade
- CT1-2
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (6 August 2025 until 3 February 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (plus on call)
- Job ref
- 317-TD-25-164
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- ENT Specialty - FH
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £52,656 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Fellow in ENT
CT1-2
Job overview
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
This post is available from 6 August 2025 until 3 February 2026. Candidates must possess full GMC registration with a license to practice at time of application, as well as previous NHS experience. This post is open to candidates FY2 and above.
We typically receive several hundred applications for ST1/2 locally employed doctor posts and we will therefore only shortlist candidates with paid NHS experience (this does not include Clinical Access or Clinical Observership placements) which is an essential criteria within the Person Specification. Please do not apply if you do not have paid NHS experience as this leads to significant clinician time reviewing applications from applicants who will not be shortlisted.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Main duties of the job
This is a fixed term post for 6 months. Further information, please read the attached job description and person specification.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Mr. Hassan Mohammed on 01912336161, or via email at [email protected].
Working for our organisation
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
• The post holder will be required to work on first on call rota. Duties include supporting the wider ENT team to manage inpatients and day surgery unit.
Administrative:
• Undertake administrative duties in relation to the care of his/her patients and in relation to the running of the Department of ENT in co-operation with the Specialty Manager and Head of Department.
• To undertake general administrative duties within a context of compliance with Directorate and Trust aims and objectives.
• They will assist the ENT Directorate Manager and Clinical Director in the timely investigation of complaints – working to provide reports within the timeframe set out by Trust policy.
• Contribute to the general organisation and running of ENT services within the Trust, working in collaboration with colleagues.
Teaching:
• There is the opportunity for involvement in the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff within the ENT department.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification
- Full GMC registration with a license to practice at time of application
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous paid NHS experience
- Previous experience in ENT
- Good history & examination skills
- Able to formulate a working diagnosis
- Able to order appropriate investigations
- Image interpretation relevant to practice
- Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague
Management and Administration Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to run a service and participate in management process
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
- Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues
- An understanding of Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
- Proven management and administration ability
- Understanding of management goals
- Experience with audit
- Evidence of leadership / project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising junior staff
- Ability to teach clinical skills
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- Experience of audit projects
Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team
- Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Alignment with the Trust’s Values
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Time management skills
- Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leadership skills
- IT literate
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Graham
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Regent Point
NE3 3HD
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